Agnes ellen bennett



(No Model.)

A; BfBEN'NETT ASH SIFTER.

No. 5.545573. 'Patented feb; 11, 1896.

A TTOHNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AGNES ELLEN BENNETT, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

ASH-SIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 554,573, dated February 11, 1896.

Application filed May 17, 1894. Serial No. 5] 1,629. (No model.)

To 1f/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, AGNES ELLEN BENNETT, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ash-Sifters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in ashsifters; and it consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front view, and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation, thereof, the chute being shown in full lines in the position it occupies in dumping the ashes and in dotted lines in position to close the opening in which it is inserted; and Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the sifter, the lid being removed.

The box or case A may be of any suitable form and material and is provided with a suitable lid B, preferably hinged at one edge, b, and provided at its opposite edge with a suitable fastening O. In this case near its top I provide the screen D, which is in the construction shown a cylindrical screen, suitably journaled and adapted to be turned in sifting by a crank or other suitable handle. This screen is adapted to receive the ashes and to dump the cinders, being to such an end provided with a door or grate E, hinged at one edge e, so it may be opened to admit the ashes and discharge the cinders and be closed to retain the cinders While sifting.

Below the sifter is a dust-receiver F, preferably provided with a drawer f, as shown, s0 the dust and sifted ashes can be easily removed. Between the dust-receiver and the screen I arrange the (finder-chute G, which projects through an opening H in the case and may be adjusted to the full-line position shown in Fig. 2 when it is desired to dump the cinders, or it may be set to the dottedline position shown in said Fig. 2 while sifting. When in such position the back g of the chute serves to close the opening H in the casing, so that no ashes or dust can escape. By preference such back board gis extended at g to abut the inner side ofthe'casing and so stop the chute in position to close the opening H, as well as forming a better closure for said opening, as will be understood.

In operation the lid of the case may be opened and the screen supplied with ashes, when the chute being as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 2, and the lid being closed the screen may be turned and the dust and ne particles sifted will drop into the receptacle. W'hen the ashes have been properly sifted the chute may be adjusted under the sieve and the cinders discharged thereinto and thence to a suitable receptacle.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with the casing provided with the lateral cinder-eXit, of a cinder-chute movable longitudinally in said eXit and provided at its inner or upper end with a back board of Vgreater vertical Width than said exit and acting, when the chute is pulled out, as a stop for retention of the chute and 'a closure for the opening, substantially as set forth.

AGNES ELLEN BENNETT.

Witnesses ALEXANDER BENNETT, ISABELLA BENNETT. 

